Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Gil (Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira) (June 26, 1942, Salvador, Bahia). He is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, composer and former Minister of Culture. His music has influences from various origins, including rock, reggae and various elements of Brazilian popular music (mainly samba and bossa nova). Since the 1960s, he has been a representative figure of the musical movement called Tropicalismo along with Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, María Bethânia and Tom Zé, among others.

He is also known for his political activity: since the 1980s he has supported citizen and political movements at the local and national level, many of them related to the demand for the rights of workers and Afro-Brazilians, and the defense of the environment; In 2003 he was appointed by Lula da Silva as Minister of Culture of Brazil, a position he held until 2008.

Biography

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira was born into a middle-class family. His father is José Gil (doctor), and his mother Claudina Passos Gil Moreira (teacher). Although he was born in Salvador de Bahía, he lived his first years in Ituaçu, a small city in Bahía (Brazil) 530 km from the capital of the state. In December 1951 he moved to Salvador, to the house of a paternal aunt to finish primary school.

Between 1959 and 1961 he was part of the group Os Desafinados, playing the sanfona (or Brazilian accordion). In 1961 he took up the guitar as his main instrument, influenced by João Gilberto and bossa nova. In the early years of the '60s he dedicated himself to composing jingles while working as a collector of taxes. The first recording of his music occurs in 1962 on a record called & # 34; Bem devagar & # 34;, with the vocal ensemble As Três Baianas , where he participates playing the accordion. The first recording of Gil singing is also from that year, on an album with music made for Petrobras, where he interprets & # 34; Coça, coça, lacerdinha & # 34;.

In 1963 he recorded his first EP: Gilberto Gil - his music, his interpretation, which includes four of his songs. That year he met Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa and Tom Zé, with who established a lasting musical friendship, which would be fundamental to the history of tropicalismo.

In 1965 he moved to the city of São Paulo. That year he achieved national significance when his song Louvação became a hit when it was recorded by Elis Regina. In addition, he managed to stand out on television, in the program "O fino da bossa", hosted by Elis Regina. He decides in 1966 to leave his job to dedicate himself to music and moves to Rio de Janeiro where he records his first LP, which is released in 1967: Louvação .

In February 1969, at the height of tropicalismo, Gilberto Gil was imprisoned by the Brazilian dictatorship along with Caetano Veloso. They are released in July and forced into exile. They then leave for London, but not before putting together a farewell show, from which the album Barra 69 will be recorded. In August the single Aquele abraço was released, which would be the Bahian's first great success as a singer. The song would form part of his third solo album (which, like the previous and the following, took his own name). During his exile, he worked with members of bands as important as Pink Floyd, Yes or The Incredible String Band.He also wrote the soundtrack for the movie Copacabana mon amour and recorded his fourth solo album.

In January 1972 he returned to his country. During the following years, he toured nationally and recorded multiple solo albums (being Expresso 2222, Refazenda and Refavela the most renowned) and with other artists. (Temporada de verão and Doces bárbaros, among others).

During the European summer of 1978, he toured the old continent, something that would be repeated almost year after year. The albums Nightingale (1978) and Realce (1979) confirm him as a world figure and bring him closer to the jazz genre. In 1979 he released an EP containing Não chore mais, a version of No woman, no cry (from B.Vincent). That song becomes his biggest sales success: the album sold 750 thousand copies .

In the '80s his fame continued to grow, repeating national and world tours, and recording a large number of albums. He works with a large number of artists on their albums and tours (Jimmy Cliff, The Wailers, João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia, among many others). In 1985 he celebrated his twenty-year career with a great event organized by the poet Waly Salomão, called "Gil, 20 light-years", lasted a week and the most important representatives of Brazilian popular music and rock from that country participated.

In 1987 Gil was elected as president of the "Fundação Gregório de Matos", something like the Municipal Secretariat of Culture of Salvador, a position he would occupy until the following year, when he left it to dedicate himself to his campaign as a candidate for councilor for the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB). He is elected to that role, which he served until 1992, highlighting his concern for environmental issues.He left the PMDB to join the Green Party in 1990.

Despite his political activity, he never gives up music. The 1990s are marked by the large number of awards and recognitions he receives. During those years he continued to record several albums, among which Parabolicamara, MTV Unplugged, Tropicalia 2 (with Caetano Veloso) and Quanta gente veio ver (which received the Grammy Award in 1999 for "Best World Music Album").

When Luís Ignácio Lula da Silva assumed the presidency of Brazil in January 2003, he chose Gil to be the government's Minister of Culture, a position from which he resigned in 2008. His tenure was characterized by an anthropological perspective of culture that stimulated diversity culture and citizen participation in public policies. Likewise, his management was known internationally for his defense of free software and for his attempts to make copyright more flexible. He defended the right of access to culture as a fundamental right, a principle that he presented in his inauguration speech as minister:

"The State does not make culture, the State creates the conditions of universal access to symbolic goods, the conditions of creation and production of cultural goods, whether artifacts or mindfacts. It is because access to culture is a basic right of citizenship, such as the right to education, health, the healthy environment."

While he was minister he continued to dedicate himself to music, even winning his album Eletroacustico the Grammy Award in 2006; however, most of the records released by him at that time were live. In 2008, after his resignation from the ministry, he released his first album with his own and unpublished songs since 1997: Banda larga cordel .In 2009 he released the CD / DVD BandaDois , recorded live; the following year he releases Fé na festa, whose live version wins the Latin Grammy Award in 2011 as "Best Brazilian Roots Music Album – Native Regional".

In 2012 the film Viramundo was released, directed by the Swiss Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, a documentary in which Gilberto Gil travels through the southern hemisphere of our planet, starting from Bahia (Brazil) and passing through Australia, South Africa and the Amazon. In March 2012 Gil recorded with the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra the CD / DVD Concerto de Cordas & Rhythm Machines at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, which gives rise to tours of Europe and South America. On August 5, 2016, he participates in the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, singing Isso Aqui, or Que É next to Caetano Veloso and Anitta.

In January 2018, he gave a show with percussionists from the Vai-Vai Samba School, whose presentation for the Carnival was inspired by his work. In August 2018, he released his album Ok Ok Ok with the Biscoito Fino label. The album was chosen as the 4th best Brazilian album of 2018 by Rolling Stone Brasil magazine and is one of the 25 best Brazilian albums of the second half of 2018, according to the São Paulo Association of Art Critics. In 2019, he won the Latin Grammy for Best Brazilian Popular Music Album.

In August 2019, she participated in the Criança Esperança program on Rede Globo, where she sang a version of her song Palco with the singer Anitta. In this same month, the soundtrack of the Grupo Corpo show, "GIL", is released. In November of the same year, she does a show with the band BaianaSystem and enters into a creative process to write unpublished songs for the album Giro (2019) by the singer Roberta Sá, an album produced by the son of She Bem Gil.

Discography

• 1967 - Louvação
• 1968 - Gilberto Gil
• 1968 - Tropicália ou Panis et Circensis (collective disco)
• 1969 - Gilberto Gil, 1969
• 1970 - Copacabana Mon Amour (sound of the homonymous film directed by Rogério Sganzerla)
• 1971 - Gilberto Gil, 1971
• 1972 - Expresso 2222
• 1973 - Barra 69 (live, with Caetano Veloso)
• 1974 - Cidade do Salvador
• 1974 - Season of verão (live, with Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa)
• 1974 - Gilberto Gil ao vivo (live)
• 1975 - Gil, Jorge: Ogum Xangô (with Jorge Ben)
• 1975 - Refazenda
• 1976 - O Viramundo (live)
• 1976 - Bárbaros (disco of the homonymous group formed by Gil, Maria Bethânia, Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa)
• 1977 - Satisfação: Raras & Inéditas
• 1977 - Refavela
• 1978 - Refestança (with Rita Lee)
• 1978 - Antologia do samba-choro (with Germano Mathias)
• 1978 - Gilberto Gil ao vivo em Montreux (live)
• 1979 - Nightingale
• 1979 - Realce
• 1981 - People need to see or look
• 1981 - Brazil (with João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethânia)
• 1982 - Um...
• 1983 - Extra
• 1984 - Quilombo (sound band of the homonymous film directed by Cacá Diegues)
• 1984 - Raça human
• 1985 - Dia dorim noite éon
• 1987 - Gilberto Gil em concerto
• 1987 - Ao vivo em Tóquio
• 1987 - I'm crazy about you, America.
• 1987 - Um trem para as estrelas (with Cazuza, soundtrack of the homonymous film directed by Cacá Diegues)
• 1989 - O eternal Deus Mu Dança
• 1992 - Parabolicama
• 1993 - Tropicália 2 (with Caetano Veloso)
• 1994 - Gilberto Gil unplugged (CD and DVD, live)
• 1995 - Z: 300 years of Zumbi (music made for a show at the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo)
• 1997 - Quanta
• 1998 - Quanta people saw (live)
• 1998 - Or Oslo sun
• 2000 - As canções de Eu, tu, eles
• 2000 - Gil & Milton (with Milton Nascimento)
• 2001 - São João Vivo (live)
• 2002 - To be alive is good (anos 80)
• 2002 - It's good to be alive (anos 90)
• 2002 - Kaya N’Gan Daya
• 2003 - Kaya N’Gan Daya ao vivo (live)
• 2003 - Salvador, 1962-1963
• 2004 - Eletracustico (live)
• 2006 - Gil Luminoso
• 2008 - Long band cordel
• 2009 - BandaDois (live)
• 2010 - Fé na festa
• 2010 - Fé na festa ao vivo (live)
• 2012 - Concerto de cordas & machines (live, with the participation of the Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica)
• 2014 - Gilbertos Samba
• 2014 - Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo
• 2015 - Caetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil - Dois Amigos, Um Século de Música
• 2018 - Trinca de Ases(Gege Produções Artísticas, with Gilberto Gil, Nando Reis and Gal Acosta)
• 2018 - OK OK OK'(Gege Produções Artísticas)
• 2018 - Gilberto Gil - OK OK OK OK - Voz e violão

Literature

Expresso 2222/Antonio Risério - Corrupio. Gilberto Gil - L'immaginazione al potere/Silvia Boschero/Arcana. Gilberto Gil - Annotated literature - Annotated literature Fred Góes - São Paulo April Education - 1982.

Brazilian Pop Music (book) Paolo Scarnecchia Gammalibri - 02/02/1983.

O poetic and o political Antonio Risério/Gilberto Gil - São Paulo Paz e Terra - 12/1988.

Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song - MPB, 1965-1985 Charles Perrone-Austin.

Songbook Gilberto Gil vol. 1. Almir Chediak - Rio de Janeiro. Lumiar Editora - 1992. Songbook Gilberto Gil vol.2. Almir Chediak - Rio de Janeiro. Lumiar Editora - 1992. All letters - Carlos Rennó - São Paulo - Companhia das Letras - 1996. GiLuminoso - A po.ética do Ser Bené Fonteles - Brasília / São Paulo. UNB/SESC Editor - 1999. The image of the sound by Gilberto Gil. Felipe Taborda. Marginália - Art & Culture "Na idade da pedrada". Marisa Alvarez Lima - Rio de Janeiro. Airplane - 09/01/2002. Gilberto Gil - Mestres of music in Brazil - Mestres of music in Brazil. Mabel Veloso. Modern Publisher - 12/2002. Gilberto Gil: all letters (updated version). Carlos Renno - Sao Paulo. Company of Letters - 2003. Gil 60: all you count. Bene Fonteles/Priscila Casaes Franco - Rio de Janeiro. Gege Editions - 2003. Tropicalism - Ideology or utopia?. Judite Botafogo - Recife. New presence - 12/2003. Sunday no park. Danilo Sorroce - Campinas. Komedi Publisher - 2005. TROPICALIA: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture. Carlos Basualdo. Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago - 10/2005. Gil in verse. Manuel Jorge Marmelo. Quasi Editions - 01/2006. Meetings Gilberto Gil. Sergio Cohn, org. Publishing Azougue - 2008. The invention of Bossa Nova and the deconstruction of Tropicalism. Ernani Mauricio Fernandes. Informal Editorial - 12/2008. Digital culture.br. Gilberto Gil - Rio de Janeiro. Azougue Editorial - 09/24/2009. Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis. Ana de Oliveira - São Paulo. Iyá Omin - 11/15/2010. Digital jangada. Eliane Costa - Rio de Janeiro. Azougue Editorial - 10/18/2011. Culture by word: articles, interviews and speeches of two ministers of culture 2003-2010. Gilberto Gil/Juca Ferreira - Rio de Janeiro. Versal Editores - 05/08/2013. Gilberto bem perto. Gilberto Gil/Regina Zappa. Editora Nova Fronteira - 07/05/2013.

Music Themes

The abóbada gives life. A lying witch A science in itself. The most beautiful thing that exists. The existence of the sun. A faca e o queijo. The family does not walk. to fire. A secret force gives joy. on the run to seagull To young vizinha. A linha e o linho. The fight against the can or the coffee failure. Light and darkness. A mão da limpieza. Right hand. to death. A mujer que eu sou. To news new In peace (Leila 4). To the human race To rua. To santa na cruz To affluent society. A last beautiful thing. To the last waltz Aboio. Open the smell. I opened the gate. Open the door for you. Academy. drowning Afoxé Badauê. afoxé é African brother bound. Drime's Agony. holy water Children's water Alapala (The myth of Shango). Alfomega. some day Tall and... Baixos. Alujá do Rei Xango. Tie your plow to a star. Friend two winds. I love living so much. Love tied or fim. Carnival love. Walk with faith Formerly. That hug. here and now Scent. As ayabas As camélias do quilombo do Leblon. So things. As glued with love. Yes, yes. asymmetric. Atimo de pó behind the trio Ahé, baba. Baba Alapala. Babylon. Back in Bahia. Bacurizim. Bay of all accounts. Timeless dance. Ballad of the side without light. balafon. Balé da Bola (Cup 98). Balé de Berlim. Bananeira. Long Cord Band. Band um. Totally cheap. big boat Bat-staka Baticum. Batmakumba. Beira-mar. Beautiful day. Well wander. Blind faith. Good day. Brand new dream. Brazil Very Happy Band. Jump to be worth. Nago Buddha. Every time in its place. Chalice. Camila. Song of the girl Spout. Cantiga. Cantiga de quem está só. Marriage and seduction. Happy Casinha. Love dinner on the beach. Electronic brain. Certainty (Mão na mão). called. whipped chao Checked in Palmares. Chewing gun with banana. Chiquinho Azevedo. Choro of upbringing Chororo. Chuck Berry fields forever. Chuck Berry fields forever. chuva miúda Cybernetics. City of Salvador. Cinema new. Ciranda. Cliché do cliché. Like medo, like Pedro. community community Copacabana funk. Empty cup. Heart. Hearts a thousand. Courage to bear. Live hearts. corinthian Corisco. Crazy pop rock. Culture and civilization. Dadaist. Dance gives water and peace. Dance of the women. Shiva dance. Dance two men. Dandara, a flower of gravatá. Sad Darlene. Das duas, um. From Bob Dylan to Bob Marley - a samba-provocação. Mild (Get Back). From where we see the baião. Of gold and ivory. leave voice Deixei message. Lixo challenge. Bachelorette party. tell her Denmark. Divine, wonderful. From Japan. Dó-ré-mi. Twelve carnival (Candy all). Teacher, brunette. Covered by a sheet. Sunday no park. Sundayu. Donate this song. Donate the piece Two pés à cabeça. Drão. Duas sanfonas. Duel of the hook and the knife. Double sense. AND. Ê, povo, ê. Edith Cooper. The A. Ela (Rap da Clara). She is moon. Ela, poet. Ele e eu. He talked nisso all day. He is. Eleve-se alto ao céu (Lively up yourself). She. emorio General essay. So it's worth it. Enter alone and jump. Between you atheus I was new... Escolha da libertad. Esoteric. This is to play the radio. It's in the face, it's in the cure. Star. Blue star of the céu. I discovered Eu e a noite. Eu and her we are there lying on the wall. Eu te dei meu ané. Eu vim da Bahia. Expresso 2222. ecstatic. Extra. Extra 2 (O rock do segurança). Female. Faith in the party Febrile. Dating for balance. Feiticeira. Felicidade vem depois (Se você disser). Happy for a triz. Figure of rhetoric. Children of Gandhi. Flagellum. Arrow up. Flora. liquid fire. For a hungry man. Fox not market. Torn frevo. Non-canavial leak. Funk-burned pudder. Futuristic. Ganga Zumba (O power gives bugiganga). Geléia geral. clear gem. Gilbertos. Gimme your love. Glasses. Chewing gum. Goodbye, my girl. Taste of praise. divine grace. Gueixa don't treat me. Holy war. Ha ha ha Haiti. Here and now. Hino da figa. Hoje o dia nasceu diferente. Homem of Neanderthal. Iansã. iemanjá. Island of illusion Indigo blue. initiation. Introduction. It's good to be alive. Jacintho. Jards Anet da Vida. Total jeca. Joao Sabino. Rare joy. Jubiaba. Jurubeba. Kao. Kaya N'Gan Daya. Goree's Moon. The African renaissance. see her Ladainha. Ladeira da preguiça. Lady Neyde. African lament. Lament of carnival I'm sorry backcountry. hospitable lar. Lavagem do Bonfim. Lens of love Lia. Lia and Deia. Lindinalva. Lindoneia. Língua do pe. roman she-wolf Logos versus logos. I logged in. Louco coração. Louvação. Luar (A people need to see or luar). common place Lunik 9. Luzia Luluza. Madeleine. Mãe da manhã. Mamão papaia. Mom. mancada. rhythm machine. Copacabana Sea. passion fruit March. March da tietagem. Mardi said mars. Marginália II. Maria (I'm sorry, Maria). Maria sadness. Marmundo. Tell me, boy. Meditation. Aircraft no. 2. Meio-de-campo. Dream girl Menina goiaba. Metaphor. Meteorum. My friend, hurt me. My choro for you. My heart. My place, my songs. Miracle in the favela. Green mille. Minha ideology, minha religion. Minha princess string. Minha ma'am. Minimystery.Miserere Nobis. Mon Tiers Monde. Brunette. Death of Drime. Move along with me. Mr Sganzela. Colonel's wife. Muse cabocla. Modern music. Incidental music. simple musician. Na house of her No imagination. Na Real. Namba, to gangamorada. Don't cry anymore. Don't growl. I am not afraid of death. I am not afraid of life. Nascente poente. Nega (Photograph blues). Snow in Bahia. Nightingale. No one gives or does not fear. No one safe this country. No céu da vibração. No day that eu vim-embora me. No world of the moon No quarter. night of love Night of lua cheia. North gives health. Nos barracos da cidade (Barracks). Us, for example. Nossa Not going. Or love here at home. O good player. Or comet. The composer told me. O eternal deus Mu dança!. The end of history. Or daily. The free-shooter and the gluer. The place of our love. Or sea or lake. O oco do mundo. The revolver of my dream. Or rouxinol. Oh your love O som da persona. The dream ended. Or seen. Oh, Maria. Semi-identified object. Sim object, no object. OK OK OK. Magic smell. Olho no. Omã iaô. blue wave. Onde or xaxado tá. One o'clock last morning, 20th April, 1970. opachorô. Prayer. Prayer for the freedom of South Africa. Underground orgy. East. You country. Oslodum. Ouco. other barbarians Others viram. Pai e mae. Box. Panis et Circenses. Parabolicamara. Patumbalacundê Pé da roseira. Pé hot, cold head. Pieces of sincerity. Giant stone. Stick to vogue, hairy. Pela grace do sol. Peel the Internet. Peel Internet 2. Bad person. Pílula de alho Plateia. Pocalipi. Little fund. Can you, Waldir? Arithmimetic poem. Pop wu wei. Because someone inveja of you. Pra fazer o sol nascer. Why lie? Pratitude. Price. I need to learn to just be. I need you. Pretinha. Processing. Soon for preto. Punk gives periphery. when When dawn how much fourth world. Four things. Four Ways. Four Pieces. what a beast Que bom prato é vatapá. Quem pueder ser bom que seja. We want to know. I want to be your funk. Order request Quilombo, or black eldorado. Rancho da Boa Vinda. Rancho da Rosa Encarnada. Enhancement. rebent. Refarm. Refavela. refazenda. Refestance. Regina de Janeiro, February and March. King of maracatu. Time clock. Rep. Requiem. Requiem for Mãe Meninha do Gantois. withdrawn. Spiritual retreats. portrays. Rio, I love you. Stem. Romece do cabo com a santa. Roque santeiro - or rock. Wise knew. Saci-Pererê. Departure for war. room of the sun Samba. Los Angeles Samba. Rod samba. Samba loco. Sampa Milano. Sandra. São João carioca. São João, Xangô menino. Sarara miolo. Sergeant Pimenta and the Banda Solidão. Tartar. Satisfaction. Say hello. If she calls me Se eu morresse de saudade. If he wanted to speak with God. Sebastian. I know you love me. Seraphim. Teleco-teco serenade. Serene. Seven syllables. Your smell. Me Esqueci Show. Site of Picapau Amarelo. Only chamei because I love you. Maria's sun. moldy dream I dream sad. I'm crazy for you america. Superhomem, to song. Table tennis table. Esquentam drums / Namba dance. Tartaruguê. king time Time only (Time will tell). Terra 90. Testament of Father Cicero. The green giant, part 1. The three mushrooms. The United States of my life. Titicaca. Tiu ru ru. Touch you. All girls from Bahia. Greetings. All manhã day. Tomorrow is going to be cool. Torpedo. Touche pas à mon pote. Tradition. December thirteenth. Trinca of Aces. Triole. sad serenade Trovoada. I'm all afraid TV Punk. A hug to João. A boi dourado car. A stream, a path. Um samba. Um dream. Um trem for the stars. A Beautiful Thing. Umeboshi. Let's run away Let's go for a walk in the astral. Come on, girl. May wind. I saw, I heard. Life without life. twenty and six Violão that knows more does not speak. Violence. viramundo. Showcases. Voce. You call and you call Volkswagen-Volkswagen blue. Volkswagen blues. Back to the world Will to love Vou-me embora pra pasárgada. Xote. Yamandu. Yeh yeh yah yah. Zabelê. zoological. buzz. Zumbi (A felicidade guerreira).